--- title: "#160: Alternative Patterns for Method Overloading in Go" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 160 published_at: "2017-05-18" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/160" --- Go Newsletter 160 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/160) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 160 — May 18, 2017 Featured [Badger: A High-Perf Key/Value Storage Engine](https://open.dgraph.io/post/badger/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast key-value store, written natively in Go. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger) Dgraph [Alternative Patterns for Method Overloading in Go](https://mymemorysucks.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/alternative-patterns-for-method-overloading-in-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) An overview of 3 approaches to deal with Go’s lack of method overloading: a functional way, an OO-style way, and a ‘JavaScript’-esque way. 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